News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03


Mrs. o. w. Butler and daughter came
to town last week.
The Masonic oyster supper took place
on Tuesday evening.
Jerre Sargent is quite sick. Age and
| teebleness add much to his sufferings.
Chauncey Barrows recently had one OF
| his fingers fearfully cut by drag saw.
The village school closes on Friday
of next week. Other schools will close
a week or so later.
On Friday four teams of G. E. Burt
drew distance of two miles, from his
lumber lot to the mill, 227 logs.
We are glad to mention that at this
! writing Mrs. Richie Mower appears very
much improved. Her sickness has been
critical.
Fred Luce, who has been employed in
the drug store for several months, will in
a few days go into the clerking employ
of c. F. Hulburd, of Cambridge, Vt.
The death of Mr.. c. B. Harris took
place on Thursday last. the funeral oc-
curing at the residence on Saturday af-
| ternoon, Rev. Mr.. Marshall officiating.
A fire district meeting was called for
February 2. A district was some years
ago organized, but it lapsed into inaction
and the records are said to be lost, hence
the call for this meeting.
The oyster supper at Mrs. Jane San
born's on Thursday evening of last week
was attended by quite 100. Whatever
the Branch people undertake i'll the way
of good times is. always attended with
| success.
Lafayette Houston recently brought
| to the village several sable skins taken
| from the shy and cunning animal caught
| during the present winter. They are an
animal not usually seen and less fire.
quently caught.
Mr.. Dixie and children wish to return
| thanks to the neighbors who kindly as
sisted in the late sickness of Mrs. Dixie.
| They have the universal sympathy of the
people in their great loss, for no loss is
so great and irreparable as the loss of a
| DEVOTED wife and mother.
Among the 'prize winners" on butter
at the late butter fair at st. Johnsbury is
E. Z. Dodge, of this place, who comes in
the pro rata list of Is who are to jointly
share the sum of $50. Though not the
| first prize, even this is an honor to Stowe.
We have many other good Gairies in
! town.
A donation for the benefit of Rev. Mr..
| Douglas is fixed for Wednesday evening
of next week. 1t is proposed to make
| the occasion one wherein both pastor and
| people will be pleased and profited. A
cordial invitation is extended to every
one. 1t will be made an occasion worthy
of our presence.
Several of the pupils in town have in
view prize speaking exhibit, which will
| occur, as now thought, on Monday eve
| ming, Feb. II. The competitors are Sc
| lected by the teachers of the different
schools engaged. Further mention may
be made in next weeks issue, as details
are not fully completed.
The lyceum on the Branch last week
Wednesday evening discussed the school
question, and on the merits of the ques-
ton deciding in the negative, on the argu-
ment in the affirmative. These lyceums
are well sustained, the discussions con-
Quoted with spirit, and the general exer-
cises are highly spoken of and creditable
to the young people of the school.
Mr.. Vaughn, who, we presume, may
have in charge the local weather, informs
| lis that up to the present time this winter
there have been fourteen days in which
| the thermometer has indicated the wealth
er to be below zero, summing up in total
2S4 degrees, while up to the same time
| last winter there were only Is days be-
| low zero, with a similar total of 166 de-
grees, showing that this winter has been
much the colder thus far.
| During the late thaw the river above
| the house of Lewis Demas at the Forks
became damned with ice, turning the rag
ing flood into the highway, to the great
danger of the house. Mrs. Demas, who
was sick at the time, was removed in the
arms of young man, while Mr.. Demas,
also in feeble health, found the icy tor
rent waist deep before he could wade out.
We are told that the family has removed
from the house until the ice is cleared
| away.
| We take the following from the items
| of the BOrOdinO correspondent of the Sat
urday morning Times published at Tully,
n. Y. under date of January Is: Capt.
| EbeneZer Barrows, of Stowe, VT, father
of Mrs. W. Y. Bliss, who has been spend
| ing the holidays with the doctor, has re-
| turned home. Despite his 81 years, he
is as agile as boy, and all his faculties
are we'll preserved. He remembers well
the battle of Plattsburgh, has been for a
long time Captain in the militia and was
offered command during the rebellion.
Before coming here this winter he helped
| chop 100 cords of wood. He is able,
| financially, to rest in his old age, but he
says to keep an old boot timber you
must continually keep oiling it. Many
years to the genial Captain and may we
see him again."
The members of the G.. A. r. Post
will hold their annual campfire at the
Town Hall on Friday evening, Feb. IL ,
at which time, under the auspices of the
Post, Henry w. Tewksbury, Vermont's
famous war lecturer, will be present,
with his mammoth oil painting of the
| Battle of Gettysburgh, representing the
repulse of Pickett's terrible charge, and
| by art and language will delineate the
scenes of that great conflict. A small
admission fee will be asked, the net re-
ceipts Of which will be expended for the
benefit of the Post. Mr.. Tewksbury has
recently spent several weeks in the West
| and the press notices of his lecture are
an assurance of its merit, and his pres
| ence here will be instructive and inter-
esting to the people and helpful to the
Post.
We clip the following from the Chica-
go AdUance, which will be of Interest to
our Stowe readers as well as the numer-
Gus friends of Deacon Savage and family.
1-TEDs.1 Rev. Mr.. Ball. of Springfield,
this State, who has just felt constrained
to withdraw from the Baptist denomina-
ton, is a graduate of Amherst college
and the Rochester Theological Semiaa-
ry, was for seven years pastor of the
Baptist church in New Haven, Conn.,,
and tor the past few years has been pas
tor of the large Baptist church in Spring
field. His wife was Congregationalist,
and he has three brothers-in-law who are
Congregational pastors, one of them,
Rev. G.. w. Phillips, of Rutland. Vt.
We presume he felt the strained relations
of his close communionism when con-
fronted with the fact that he could not
consistently commune with his own wife,
and other of the nearest and dearest
friends he had on earth. He has treated
with perfect trankness the church OF
which until recently he was pastor, and
it is pleasant to note that they still fol-
low him with their sincerest friendship
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